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v.. gormandize, gorge; overgorge † , overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff;<br />

guttle † , guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp &c (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of<br />

house and home.<br />

have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c (appetite) 865.<br />

pamper.<br />

Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c v.; edacious † , omnivorous, crapulent † ,<br />

swinish.<br />

avaricious &c 819; selfish &c 918.<br />

pampered; overfed, overgorged † .<br />

Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat.] [Horace].<br />

958. Sobriety -- N. sobriety; teetotalism.<br />

temperance &c 953.<br />

water-drinker; hydropot † ; prohibitionist; teetotaler, teetotalist; abstainer, Good<br />

Templar, band of hope.<br />

V. take the pledge.<br />

Adj. sober, sober as a judge.<br />

959. Drunkenness -- N. drunkenness &c adj.; intemperance; drinking &c v.; inebriety † ,<br />

inebriation; ebriety † , ebriosity † ; insobriety; intoxication; temulency † , bibacity † , wine<br />

bibbing; comtation † , potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender<br />

[U.S.].<br />

oinomania † , dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu [Fr.].<br />

drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup,<br />

rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer &c (beverage) 298;<br />

aguardiente † ; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning<br />

[Slang], champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling † ; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps<br />

[U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres † .<br />

drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber † , wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram<br />

drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser,<br />

Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal † , Bacchante † ; devotee to Bacchus † ; bum [U.S.],<br />

guzzler, tavern haunter.<br />

V. get drunk, be drunk &c adj.; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much;<br />

drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse [Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum<br />

[U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at<br />

the shrine of Bacchus † ; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have<br />

one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit<br />

you.<br />

liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off<br />

&c (drink up) 298; go to the alehouse, go to the public house.<br />

make one drunk &c adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle † , get into one's head.<br />

Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious † , inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of<br />

intoxication &c n.; temulent † , temulentive † ; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut,<br />

boozy, fou † , fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy;<br />

potvaliant † , glorious; potulent † ; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed

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